<b><span>Provocative and penetrating, <i>Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?</i> reveals a wealth of depictions of the future and shows the many ways in which they also address the present.</span></b><span> As the official artists' collective representing Vienna at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group — Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry — invented an artist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a very elaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas Ballhausen, brings that same sense of the cutting-edge and the carnivalesque to this collection exploring erotica, science fiction, and technology. A bracing mix of literary forms, the book shows why the fantasy genre is especially suited to the investigation of the transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Here questions of science, research, and technologization are examined, along with the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss of control). </span> <div> <b><span>Provocative and penetrating, <i>Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?</i> reveals a wealth of depictions of the future and shows the many ways in which they also address the present.</span></b><span> As the official artists' collective representing Vienna at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group — Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry — invented an artist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a very elaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas Ballhausen, brings that same sense of the cutting-edge and the carnivalesque to this collection exploring erotica, science fiction, and technology. A bracing mix of literary forms, the book shows why the fantasy genre is especially suited to the investigation of the transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Here questions of science, research, and technologization are examined, along with the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss of control). </span> </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b>Richard Kadrey</b> is a novelist, freelance writer, and photographer based in San Francisco. Kadrey’s novels are Metrophage, Kamikaze L’Amour, and Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion.” Other works include collaborative graphic novels and over 50 published short stories. Kadrey’s short story Carbon Copy: Meet the First Human Clone was filmed as After Amy. His non-fiction books as a writer and/or editor include The Catalog of Tomorrow (Que/TechTV Publishing, 2002), From Myst to Riven (Hyperion, 1997), The Covert Culture Sourcebook and its sequel (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1993 and 1994); Kadrey also hosted a live interview show on Hotwired in the 1990s called Covert Culture. He was an editor at print magazines Shift and Future Sex, and at online magazines Signum and Stim. He has published articles about art, culture and technology in publications including Wired, Omni, Mondo 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Ear, Artforum, ArtByte, Bookforum, World Art, Whole Earth Review, Reflex, Science Fiction Eye, and Interzone. </span></p> 	 		 		 	 	 		<div class="page" title="Page 248"> 			<div class="section"> 				<div class="layoutArea"> 					<div class="column"> 						<p><b><span>Cory Doctorow </span></b><span>(craphound.com) is a science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction author, activist, journalist and blogger - the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens novel LI</span><span>TT</span><span>LE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. </span></p> 					</div> 				</div> 			</div> 		</div> 	 	 		 		 	 	 		<div class="page" title="Page 250"> 			<div class="section"> 				<div class="layoutArea"> 					<div class="column"> 						<p><b><span>Rudy Rucker </span></b><span>is computer scientist and science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary move- ment. </span><span>Th</span><span>e author of both </span><span>fi</span><span>ction and non-</span><span>fi</span><span>ction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the </span><span>fi</span><span>rst two of which (So</span><span>ft</span><span>ware and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. At present he edits the science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction webzine Flurb. </span></p> 					</div> 				</div> 			</div> 		</div> 	
<p class="MsoNormal">The genre of the “fantastic” is especially well suited to the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian admonishment: Here the classic, and continuingly valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control). Depictions of the future, regardless of the form they take, always address the present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well.</p>
	 		 		 	 	 		<div class="page" title="Page 11"> 			<div class="section"> 				<div class="layoutArea"> 					<div class="column"> 						<p><span>Science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction is a mountain of metaphors, a funhouse of crooked mirrors that give us new views of our actual world. </span></p> 						<p><span>From our genes’ point of view, we’re meat-based landcrawlers to ride around in. Imagine li</span><span>tt</span><span>le double helices lounging in the hammocks of your cells. What makes us especially useful is that, now and then, we spawn o</span><span>ff </span><span>new landcrawlers with copies of the passenger genes, carrying them ever forward through time. </span></p> 						<p><span>Pu</span><span>tt</span><span>ing the same point di</span><span>ff</span><span>erently, if living organisms weren’t obsessed with sex none of us would be here. We’re each a link in a chain of generations, we’re dangling dollies on a slimy macramé of a trillion umbilical cords. </span></p> 						<p><span>Of course we enjoy sex for more immediate reasons than reproduction: erotic pleasure, the orgasm, and partnership bonding. </span><span>Th</span><span>e last one is important. </span><span>Th</span><span>at’s why we talk about </span><span>making love</span><span>. We’re wired so that loves readily grows from the sex act. </span></p> 						<p><span>Certainly, if reproduction were the only reason for sex, you wouldn’t be having so many orgasms. How many? Math time! Suppose you live to your eighties, and that you have seventy years of sexual activity, which makes for about 3,500 weeks. If you’re energetic enough to average three pops a week for seventy years, you’re talking about something on the order of ten thousand orgasms. All that brain-</span><span>fl</span><span>ashing to bring forth at most a couple of kids! </span><span>‘</span><span>Oooo Mommy, you mean you and Daddy did that </span><span>twice</span><span>?</span><span>’ </span></p> 						<p><span>So how about science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction and sex? Where have we been, where are we headed, and how much further can we go? </span></p> 					</div> 				</div> 			</div> 		</div> 	
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